The Devil's Halo

by Chris Fox

Rare Book

Genres: Thriller

656 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Chris Fox was partner in a New York strategy consulting company. He worked around the world with clients such as Citicorp, JVC, and Heineken, then decided to become a fiction writer. To combat writer's block, he sometimes dogfights in a World War II era USAF Trainer and takes his NSX onto the skidpad at various racetracks.

Reviews

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Exciting, spy chasing, Europe bashing America, destroying GPS satellites in space. Could you imagine living without GPS and all its uses especially those used by the Armed Forces around the world.

[Ryun · Rating 3 out of 5]

Spy thriller novelists used to have it easy. The Cold War presented an enemy that could easily be portrayed as Evil with a capital “e”, that had a level of state secrecy that allowed them to make up what they wanted without directly contradicting known fact, and that had definable borders, as opposed to the amorphous blob of international terrorism.

Nowadays, that’s all been shot to hell. Who are the bad guys? China’s bad, but of course nobody wants to hear that. North Korea might as well be Pluto for all that we care about it, and Iran, while a nice choice, has really been done to death. Chris Fox sidesteps this dilemma by rooting out the real global bad guys: the Europeans.

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[Frederick Tan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Germany no longer the leader of the European Union while France forge a new Greater Europa Union(GEU)with Russia to counterweight against the United State the only superpower left. The battle in the future is not on conventional battle but of the space warfare type. The next battle will be fought among the satellites.
This is the background of this story as France with the help of Russia try to usurp the GPS satellites of the United State as struggle for space supremacy take shapes. Industrial counterespionage expert Terry Weston and his beautiful wife Maria are the only persons who are capable to unravel this scheme and must do so before it is too late as they travel first to Moscow then on to Paris as they race against time to stop this catastrophic war.

[Spook · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent read. Everybody today takes so much for granted. Imagine how it would be if the theme of this book became reality. A frighteningly, exciting read.